AAS Call for Proposals: Grand Challenges Africa Round 11 Transition to Scale Innovation

Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa) is a program of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and is honored to extend an invitation to ALL groups that meet the eligibility criteria and have proof of concept results for science-based innovations to participate in the  Round 11 Transition to Scale Innovation call for proposals.

This call is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). 

The goal of this call is to catalyze scale and sustainability – so that the bold ideas we support are closer to having big impact in a sustainable manner by the end of the funding term.

Objectives:

1. Identify the most promising innovations in the field of health and development in Africa that have gone beyond proof of concept.
2. Support widespread replication and/or adaptation of the innovations across large geographies and populations for transformational impact (scaling).
3. Promote Africa-led scientific innovations to help countries better achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by awarding Innovation Transition Grants (ITG) to the continent’s most impressive solutions. This is as a follow up to initial Innovation Seed Grants (ISG) advanced by Grand Challenges partners.

Eligibility criteria:

1. Non-profit organization, for-profit company, or another recognized institution that is incorporated in an eligible jurisdiction in Africa and can receive and administer funding. 
2. Founders or PIs should be African Citizens or residents of Africa. Where there is local international ownership, applicants should have adequate control to make executive decisions about the project. 
3. The applicant should NOT have another running Transition to Scale grant from Grand Challenges Africa.
4. Projects that have demonstrated proof of concept by presenting sufficient and credible evidence to substantiate that their idea has demonstrated improved health and development outcome(s) and/or the reduction of significant barrier(s) to health / development and demand for the solution in a controlled or limited setting and have a plan to transition to scale.
5. Any project from the Grand Challenges Family that has a Transition-to-Scale agreement with requirement for 1:1 matching through partnerships will be eligible for this funding.
6. Most of the applicant’s activities and budget must be carried out/spent in an eligible African country (or countries).
7. A Project Lead may only be listed on one application to this Request for Proposals. An institution may be the applicant on multiple applications, provided all applications have different Project Leads.
8. Applications must include all required information. Only complete applications will be considered by the triage and review committees.

Read more here. 

Proposals deadline June 30, 2020.